RT Article
T1 SONGS AGAINST THE DEVIL: THE EXORCISTIC IN AUDEN
JF Literature and theology
VO 13
IS 1
SP 17
OP 33
A1 Hobson, Theo 1972-
LA English
YR 1999
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1780306768
AB This essay reassesses the religious development of Auden's poetry. It suggests that Christianity's primary attraction for him lay in it promise of deliverance from negative social and psychological forces. For faith, such forces are demonic ‘powers of this world’ which the Word has already vanquished. In witnessing to the victory of the Word, Christian poetry can participate in this cosmic exorcism
DO 10.1093/litthe/13.1.17